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Lenovo Exec: With Haswell, There’s No Longer A Need For Windows RT

Engadget’s Daniel Cooper cites Lenovo’s Australian marketing chief Nick Reynolds saying at the company’s 2013 press conference that Intel’s Haswell CPU silicon has eliminated the compromise between long battery life and good performance, contending that with Haswell users can run full-fat Windows 8 (and Mac users OS X 10.8 if they have a mid-2013 MacBook Air) and get a full day of use from a single charge, so there’s not much need for a low-power draw, stripped-down verson of Windows.